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Gender neutrality

In Sweden there has a been a long debate about gender neutrality. It has even gone to that point where they've made up a name that is gender neutral the so called "hen" which is a mix between hon (she) and han (him). The reason for this is that some people might not see themselves as a man and a woman and it should therefore be something that isn't specific to a gender. I think that this has been taken too far. The problem isn't what they are called, the problem is that people consider being female or male. Even though you feel like a man inside your biological gender is still something you can't change without a proper sex change.
I don't think it's wrong to feel trapped in a body of the wrong gender but I think that we need to stop making it to being a problem and instead work on removing the view of stereotypes about gender.
The reason for me raising this topic now is because of my high school. Sodra Latin has decided to build a gender neutral changing room where people can change one at the time in privacy to avoid the problem with people that might not feel like the fit in in either changing room. I think the thought of it is a great idea but it is not really thought through. Regardless what you feel like you might be uncomfortable with changing infront of other people so why should there only be one changing room for people to change in privacy. Wouldn't it be a better idea to change all the rooms and build cubicles so everyone gets a chance to change in privacy?
Another thing they haven't considered is how exposed these people get if they choose to go and change in the gender neutral changing room. If they weren't seen as different and strange already they will be when they decide not to change in the normal changing room.
I think this is not going to help the situation, it will only make it worse. The person, that is already feeling a bit discriminated and different will go to another changing room and miss out of the banter going on in the normal changing room. People will also question why he/she (hen) goes there and it will make that person feel uncomfortable. In the society we live in now-a-days people will find this as a reason to bully someone regardless how old you are. It's not fair to put a person out there and make it even worse for him/her.
We need to make sure that everyone feels that it is ok to be whoever you want to be but we shouldn't separate them from the rest because that goes against the whole point of treating everyone equally. This changing room doesn't do that and is therefore not a good idea. Give everyone the same rights to change in private instead of treating these people differently because the last thing they want is to be different in even more ways than they already feel.

Here is an article about it
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/genderneutral-changing-ro_n_3156433.html

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